Fairfield Porter Quotes
There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
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I don't have any nicknames.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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When I get the record, all it will make me is the player with the most hits. I'm also the player with the most at bats and the most outs. I never said I was a greater player than Cobb.
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I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.
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Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.
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Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous, unpredictable creativity and our dignity.
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There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
